Vanguard: Business & Portfolio WordPress Theme

Vanguard: Business & Portfolio WordPress Theme

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced WordPress professional, Vanguard was built with you in mind. Powerful and at the same time easy to use tools, make it easy for everyone to build a website. The build-in custom admin panel has all the options you’ll ever need to customize your website in a few minutes, be it changing colors, adding a background image, fonts or setting image sizes, Vanguard has got you covered.

The theme also includes an XML file that you can use to import the data seen in the theme demo so that you have a solid base to work with and start with the right foot. Also, the sliders you see on the theme demo that were built using the LayerSlider plugin are also capable of being imported.

Some of the themes on this site are so complicated to use that you would be quicker hand coding a site. This theme, however, is a joy to use. A great admin area that’s not over-complicated, features that are actually useful and a good set of integrated short-codes.

All in all, great work, I hope it does really well for you. lordmackay

This theme stands out, in that it actually delivers on all promises made in advertizing it — something very few others can claim. More than that, this theme is built with thoughtfulness to needs of the the end-user building a website, including features that make the process EASY AND ENJOYABLE! Wordpress has the phrase “Just another Wordpress blog” as the slogan of any new install of WP, and for most themes it’s true. Not so for Vanguard. With Vanguard, you can build a fully-fledged website with many layers of complexity and depth. Not “just another blog”.

We hope so see many more such thoughtfully-designed and well-executed themes! schillerinstitut

Just voted 5 stars on this theme! It’s brilliant. Love how well options work and how good it looks! Thank You for a wonderful theme, bought two themes for my website before, but those wasn’t so good, so I will use Yours! Thanks! SBDomains

This is one of the best themes I have come across, highly recommended. The admin interface, sliders and shortcodes are top shelf and very easy use. Had a couple of questions that support answered quickly and the documentation is very useful as well. Andrew

I recommend Vanguard for the best theme on mobile phone in particular. There is no unwanted both-side margins on large over 4inches phone. And zooming is possible on mobile mode. It means browsing with bigger characters on mobile phone. aalaw38

Fantastic theme! It’s very robust, organized, and clean. No problems so far and the author’s support is great! VinhSonNguyen

I would like to mention again that this is a Must Have theme for anyone who is looking for simplicity & good quality! handrei

General Features

Includes an XML file that enables you to import dummy data and placeholder images with examples of slider images, portfolio items, blog posts and all the shortcodes examples. Start your new website with the right foot

Complete documentation with screenshots to help you through the installation and customization process.

Powerful and easy to use custom admin panel (CMS) for setting the theme options.

Fully responsive from Desktop to Mobile.

Unobtrusive JavaScript that gracefully degrades when it’s disabled.

Wordpress built in automatic thumbnail generation and image resizing.

Translation ready, theme comes with a .PO file with English localization.

WPML ready.

SublimeVideo player fully integrated with the Slider allowing HTML5 video playback as well as integration with the [video] shortcode.

CSS and jQuery Drop Down Menu.

Full page backgrounds: every page, post and portfolio item can have a full page background image that centers itself and fills the entire browser screen even when the browser is resized (when using narrow “boxed” layout).

Customizable Sub-headers: every page, post and portfolio item can have a sub-header bar that is capable of displaying a title and description, as well as setting a particular sub-header height and background image.

Includes a free license for the awesome LayerSlider plugin (15$ value).

4 Sliders: Normal Slider and Full Width Slider, Normal LayerSlider and Full Width LayerSlider supporting images up to 1920px width and have Video support. Every page, post and portfolio item can have a sub-header slider that is capable of displaying images and/or videos of a specific slider item category or categories. This enables you to add a slider pretty much anywhere you want, be it for showcasing an item of your portfolio, your home page, or even a blog post.

Multiple Blogs: create completely independent blog pages that display different categories in each page, and the theme includes 2 different blog page templates.

Multiple Portfolios: create completely independent portfolio pages that display different portfolio categories in each page, and the theme includes 7 different portfolio page templates.

Customizable Image Sizes: the Image sizes section of the admin panel is a very powerful tool because it lets you set the image height of pretty much any image you see in the theme. For example, you can easily set the height of the images in a portfolio template with 4 columns, or the blog detail page, all of this without touching a single line of code or asking for support.

Skin Manager: change colors, background images and fonts.

Fonts Manager: quickly update the Google Web Fonts list of available fonts that the Google Web Font Directory keeps adding and updating, select which font subsets will be included if the current skin is using any Google Web Font and upload new Cufon fonts that you generate.

Shortcode Manager: the theme includes an incredibly easy to use shortcode manager in the rich text editor inside WordPress, you just need to click on the Vanguard logo and select which shortcode you want to add to your content.

Awesome page examples to get you started.

Wordpress Gallery with Lightbox.

9 widgetized areas that can be hidden or replaced with your own custom created sidebars. This is possible for every page, post and portfolio item.

Feature – Added an option to the Twitter widget and shortcode to use JavaScript in order to retrieve tweets in the client side. This is useful when your site is on a shared hosting environment and the Twitter API is limited resulting in no tweets.

Tweak – Removed the defined position in which the Vanguard admin panel appears on the WordPress admin area, which was preventing some plugin menus from appearing.

Fix – Made the breadcrumbs “You are here” string available for translation.

Fix – Fixed the styling of WPML language changer widget in dropdown menu mode when added to the superior-header or the footer bar.

Fix – The YouTube and Vimeo videos were not properly resizing to their parent content area.

Fix – Sub-headers with image backgrounds now properly resize according to the device’s width.

Credits

The images you see in the theme preview are not included in the downloadable file and were kindly provided for demo purposes by Michael Schmid: www.workdiary.de. Their use outside the theme preview is strictly forbidden without the author’s permission.

All the images on the theme preview other than the portfolio images were purchased with a commercial license and are not included on the purchased product.

NOTE: don’t forget to rate the theme

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